Musings from the day

Well, another day gone! Why do these days just fly by?? I mean, seriously. When I was a kid, and then even into my 20's, everything seemed in slow motion. I couldn't wait for the kids to grow up some, and to just be done with certain things. Now, it just zooms by and I want to grab ahold of the day and just reign it back in. It's all out of my control, and I don't like giving up control....of anything. It is so very hard for me. I cry when I think of my kids growing up and leaving. I don't like the thought of growing older, AT ALL! I know I am not pregnant right now, and I am sort of glad, but there are times that I just stop and count how many possible years I have left to concieve and I get nervous...Like, what if I enter menopause early?? I don't want to be done...but yet....here I sit. Frozen in a time where everything else is just spinning by. I am stuck, but the rest of the world isn't. It is very disconcerting.

Ick...must get past that first paragraph. Onto more lighter things. We went on an awesome homeschool field trip today. We saw exhibits and participated in things at the geoscience center in Tulsa. That was cool.....my kids getting to see dinosaur poop, and fossils, and rocks. Now, duh...they were telling it all from a "scientific" point of view, like millions of years ago baloney, but my kids know better and it WAS still informative. Holding fool's gold is kind of neat you know. Adam already had a rock collection started, so he added a couple more to it.

Got home from the field trip, and the kids were late to start their paper routes.....We still had to quickly eat dinner, and then they went out. We called the paper and told them we would be late, which was fine, because we are NEVER late, and we have worked this job for 3 years now. So, they said fine...and so it was fine. The kids leave, and a half hour later, my daughter comes home completely red faced and no coat on. Mind you, it was snowing!!! I said, what is wrong, to which she replied "Hall".

I said "huh"??? She retells the story that he jumped on her on his porch after he opened the door and she handed him his paper. He demanded to know why she was late, and she told him that we were in the city all day. To which he replied that "we didn't tell him that it would be late...we should have it on our answering machine or something"!! As if! She told him that "she was sorry", and he proceeds to say, "I called 3 times, and hate answering machines, and that her brother never screwed up the service and she should not expect him to tip her this month." He asks her if she understood, and she said "yes"...Then he goes, "no you dont"!!! He belittled my daughter for no reason! To put the icing on the cake, he didn't even call! He lied about that even. So, my husband immediately marches to his house and confronts the guy.

Hall said "it's their job to give me a paper, and I am a customer". Tony said that he understands that, but "she was gone for school, and that she never gives him bad service. Dont yell at my daughter and hold a tip over her head like a carrot and belittle her just because one day you get your paper late!"

Well, I am going to talk to the newspaper manager and stop him, because I will NOT have my child treated this way...period. If they don't let us stop him, then my kids will quit. Plain and simple.

Whew! That was a handful....More later.